During Newtown’s 33rd Annual Holiday Festival, the C.H. Booth Library housed the Festival of Trees portion of the event throughout two of its rooms on December 2.
A Fraser Woods Montessori School mother has created an online app to help inspire girls to be clever, creative, and inquisitive. Empowered Girl offers tools and interactive features to help girls understand self-care.
Local political representatives and groups travel to Washington, D.C., to deliver a press conference, on December 6, demanding Congress act on preventing gun violence.
Occupation: I’ve been a pharmacist since 1994. I worked for a large pharmacy chain while I went for my MBA in New Jersey. When I got a job in Litchfield County running a small, independent chain, ...
The natural fragrance of fresh evergreens filled The Meeting House during the Garden Club of Newtown’s annual Holiday Greens & Gift Sale on December 1.
UPDATE: NEF's Annual Evening of Comedy has been postponed to Friday, March 1. || The Newtown Education Foundation Honor an Educator program is live in time for the holiday season, according to the foundation. The foundation has also announced its next Annual Evening of Comedy fundraiser is slated to be held January 19.
3OH!3 celebrated the ten-year anniversary of their album "Want" by bringing their Want Party House Tour with Emo Nite to Irving Plaza in New York City on November 27.
The Newtown Meeting House was brimming with guests eager to witness the Newtown Choral Society present Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” on December 2.
The group was directed by Mary Andreotta a...
Dear Alyssa, Kelela, and Brandon,
We send our sincere sympathy to you and your family. We will also keep you in our prayers asking our Lord to grant you comfort and peace.
With love,
Vince and Sandy Venitelli
Bruce, your advice that voters should “read, listen, and engage” would be much more persuasive if you practiced it yourself.
You campaigned on openness and responsiveness. You declared that “evasive answers or silence are unacceptable in government” and promised to answer constituent inquiries within two days. Yet you never answered my straightforward public question about Main Street demonstrations, traffic disruption, pedestrian safety, and the effects on local businesses.
After taking office, meaningful public engagement has largely been replaced by “Brews with Bruce” at the Senior Center—requiring reservations and, for some residents, a day pass. That is not accessible, townwide engagement. Previous first selectmen held open coffee hours and walk-and-talk sessions that any resident could attend.
Then came the failed storm communications, your apology, and another promise to communicate better—followed shortly afterward by more silence while multiple police agencies conducted a significant search near Saw Mill Road.
You now tell voters to examine what candidates say and “how they say it.” I would suggest going one step further: compare what politicians promise while seeking office with what they actually do after winning.
Your record presents a stark contrast. You told voters exactly what they wanted to hear to get the job, then failed to live by those promises. Whether that is dishonesty or simply indifference, it is the same familiar, two-faced politics you once claimed you would replace.
Nothing says “I care about Newtown homeowners” quite like lining Main Street with plywood campaign billboards—apparently built just inches below the size at which officials say they can take action. At this rate, we’ll need property-tax relief just to offset the loss in curb appeal.
